Ted Cruz dismisses talk of 2016 presidential bid

'My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen'

Published: 07/21/2013 at 10:40 PM

(ABC News) In an interview for “This Week” with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz dismissed talk of a potential 2016 White House bid, along with the question of whether he is ready to run for the highest office in the land after having been a senator less than a year.

“We are having a national debate about which direction the country should go … and what I am doing now is trying to participate in that national debate,” Cruz said Friday while in Iowa, a state frequented by those with White House ambitions. “I’m not focused on the politics…the last office I was elected to was student council. So this has been a bit of a whirlwind.”